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Pisa measures 15-year-olds in reading, maths and science every three years - but is that the best way to test an education system?
Policymakers and others often invoke the 1957 Russian launch of sputnik when trying to spark a discussion about education reform. A rhetoric scholar examines how often they succeed.
Our report examines Australia’s educational performance against equity and excellence benchmarks. It finds the inequality gap is large and growing.
Australian education is still going backwards from where we started in 2000 – new PISA results show.
Every three years, the OECD releases its Programme for International Student Assessment results. Last time, Australia’s education system was doing much worse than some other countries. Has it changed?
Only 9% of people in the UK are privately educated, and yet they occupy an especially high share in positions of public influence.
Black youth need programs that develop emotional intelligence – to combat institutional racism, social exclusion and white supremacy. The government’s promised $19 million is not enough.
The new education secretary, Damian Hinds, has his work cut out, so here’s what he needs to do.
Top contributors
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Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research
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Professor of Labour Economics and Skills Development, UCL Institute of Education, UCL
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Associate Professor in the Institute of Education, University of Reading
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PhD student in Education, York University, Canada
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Senior Research Fellow, Australian Council for Educational Research
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Deputy Lead of Education Policy, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Data Scientist with World Data Lab and Lecturer in Machine Learning and Data Science, Vienna University of Economics and Business
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of North Texas
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Professor of Leadership in Education, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
